Conversations – The Story of the Cow

Bismillah Rohan Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah him Hamad water earlier he was a hobby of mine and my dad. So every Friday night, we take a conversation from the Quran and we try to gain an understanding of that passage and we try to extract lessons that we can take from that passage of the Quran. And last week or the last time we had a class or we had the session, we talked about the story of the conversation that took place between Allah subhanho wa Taala and the melodica where Allah He told them about ICA that he intends to create the human race. In today's session, Inshallah, we're talking about a conversation that took place between

that took place between Musa alayhis salam and Bani Israel in but it was also between Allah subhanho wa Taala and Bonita star. And this is a story of the slaughtering of the cow. Now the very first thing is that was interesting to note is that this sutra is called Surah Al Baqarah. And if you study the entire sutra, there's so many things that are mentioned in the sutra. There are there are yet about the Audra of Allah there are yet about the manavi Goon there are yet about Bani Israel in the in fact there's so many ayat of Bani Israel even they if Allah were to call this Surah Bani Israel, it still will make sense. But there's only one story of the cow. Only one story of the cow.

And by the way, you know when you look at the story of Musa alayhis salaam, the story of Musa is scattered throughout the entire Quran. Unlike this story, the story of the cow this is only mentioned one place in the Quran and Allah brought it all together in one place. But still the question begs Why is Allah calling this pseudo pseudo Al Baqarah? When there's only one story or one passage related to backlog now somebody's gonna have this have this you know, they have, you know, dwelled upon this and a very interesting explanation that I found was this. When you go back and you study about bunnies saw in one of the biggest things that makes you or that sharks Eva bunny sorry,

Ian, is that they were saved from fit on there were saved by Allah subhanho wa taala. And if there's any time you need to have doubt is when you don't see something. So before Allah subhanho wa Taala save money and start even if they doubted Musa you Salam, if they doubted Allah subhanho wa Taala it will still make some sense. But when you cross the sea, when you see the sea in front of you has parted, you have crossed through and now Phil own is trying to cross through and he's destroyed along with his army. There should be no risk no trace of any doubt in

Your heart that means that when Musa tells you to do something, you believe in it right away because you know that this is not Musa who say this. This is the rub of Musa telling him what to tell, but he decided what to do. So there should be no doubts. Yet what is shocking? What is mind boggling is that all these doubts that would come to Musa Islam, it happened after the incident of crossing the sea, like it would not make any sense None whatsoever. So this is a story of one of those stories. And not only that, but they said earlier that they always they doubted Musab as of now. Yes, going back to why why baccarat if you remember the story of Musa he said

the story of Musa is someone he went to tour and he took a group of people with him when he came back when he came back. The Quran mentions in fact, this is a story that is more mentioned in surah Taha where Musala is and found his people or the people been installed in and he even got upset at how not to hit salaam that what has happened when I went away. What they did was that they left the worship of Allah subhanho wa Taala and they went to a to a word

to a cow, you know, said they went to a cow. The idea that some alumni have given interestingly is that the reason why this is mentioned sort of Bukhara is because despite the fact that bunnies saw in saw the truth, they believe in Allah yet they left Allah subhanho wa Taala and they went back to their Jai Helia roots. This is why Allah subhanho wa Taala is bringing this awareness to us that one of the most important things that you have to understand meaning you means this is Allah telling all of us that you cannot once you say you believe in Allah subhanho wa Taala once you say you believe in the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you have left those things that are not pleasing to

Allah subhanho wa Taala and you cannot become like bernisa and go back to your Jamelia roots. There are things that you may have done, before you work close to Allah, you cannot go back to those things. And when you go back and when we go back to the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we learned that there are many things the province has some taught them many things to get away from their giant ear practices. And as soon as they will do something, and they will act in the Jahai away, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam will remind them again, that you left what you were doing to in order to come to the beauty of Islam, do not go back to your practices. In essence

in our time, the best way to understand that what are those practices, they are cultural practices that contradict with Islam. You and I and for majority of us, we will not close to Allah subhanho wa Taala we did not grow up this way. But we learned we would we would do things that were completely against the deen against the teachings of our deen. But when we began to read the Quran, when we began to learn the Quran, the Sunnah of the Prophet of Salem, we changed our life. So the very first thing is, what's very important is we can never go back to our Jai helliya practices, if there are any practices that we used to do that are in contradiction of Islam, we have to stay away from those

Now, coming to the story of the cow. What happened was this is mentioned by some of the Allamah in there to proceed that a man was killed in bunnies saw in and there were no rules. This is a time when they have just, you know, they had just parted or they left the scene, that whole incident the scene took place. And now there is a murder in their society. There were no laws of manslaughter. There were no laws of murder. They do not know who actually killed the person. So they came to Masada, his Salaam. Now they came to Musa Assam and they said yeah, wave Paula Musa and he told me he in the La Jolla, Morocco entered Bo Baccarat, Paulo at a turkey dinner. Huzzah. So first of all,

he came to Musala and someone they said, This is our situation, tell us what to do. Now Musa ASAM there were no words from Allah Subhana Allah to Allah. So he made dua to Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah, Allah the Almighty, He said to musasa that instruct them to sacrifice a cow, okay, sacrifice a cow. Now, let's take a step back and try to understand this. If I'm asking someone that there is a murder in our community, and you come back to me and you tell me that slaughter a cow,

how does that help? Okay, I'll slaughter a cow. How will that help me find out who killed this person? But here's the thing. Number one is that when you have seen the truth, when you have seen the see part and you were under the supervision or you are under the leadership of Musa Islam, you know for a fact that if this man is telling you that first of all night he himself is telling you, but he is telling to Buddy you saw in the law

Ha ha Allah is telling you to do this not me. Not me. Allah is telling you to sacrifice a cow. And what was their response? I tequila? Huzzah. Are you kidding with us Musa like after seeing the truth to accuse Musa that this is a joke this was the crime of Bonita star Ian. And if you look at this idea and what's before this ayah Allah subhanho wa Taala said, Allah subhanho wa Taala said, What is a hudna Meetha cocoon what a fire and fo okumoto. Allah took a covenant for bunnies saw in the very first thing that they violated was the day of Sabbath. Allah did not allow them to hunt, or to catch fish, but they found ways to work around or to create loopholes in the order of Allah subhanho wa

taala. And number two was this. This is a story that's mentioned after breaking their covenant. Now in this story, once again, the first lesson that we take from this is that this is Allah, this is Allah once again in the Quran, the quran being revealed during the time of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So this is Allah telling the Sahaba that look the people of Musa despite that they saw the power of Allah, they still doubted him, but you Oh Sahaba you see the quran being revealed to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Do not ever doubt Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, because once again, this is Allah talking about this is not Allah revealing the story that time Musa

This is Allah revealing the stories and the time of the Sahaba to the Sahaba to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and there must be an objective of the story. So these are the objectives they doubted Musa you should not doubt a sua Allahu alayhi wa sallam to begin with. Number two, when Allah subhanho wa taala, when the province tells you to do something, whether it makes sense or it does not make sense, but because he's a prophet of Allah, you should believe in him and you should never doubt him. Unlike when he saw in Allah subhanho wa Taala did tell Musa to tell them to sacrifice a cow. Yes, it may not make logical sense. Like today I talked about in my

hotbar that when Musa Ali's son came to the sea, Allah is telling him take your stuff and hit it on the water. Logically, it does not make any sense. If I take my steak and I hit it on the water, what good does it do? But Allah but Musa understands that when Allah tells me to do something, I don't question the orders of Allah subhanho wa Taala I do as he tells me to do, and I leave the rest in the hands of Allah, I want to be saved. This is Musa thinking, I want to be saved the waters in front of me. Yes, if there was a fleet of ships there waiting for me, I would understand. But here I want to be saved and Allah is telling me take her stick a hint on the on the water. It may not make

sense. But this is Allah telling the Sahaba of the alotta and whom that remember when the Prophet Sam tells you to do something, whether it makes sense or not, did not doubt Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and this is why, you know even in the seed of the prophets of Salaam, there were so many instances so many times when the Prophet would give, would give, he would tell us he will foretell us about the future. When the province Saddam is traveling from Mecca to Medina. And he sees to rock up in Malik and he tells Surah Cubbon Malik that one day you will wear the jewelry of Kisara the king of Persia and he's thinking to himself that here this man has no place to go. He's

wandering the desert. He's trying to make his way to Medina. And here he's promised me promising me the jewelry of Giza. And lo and behold, when the jewelry from the Persian Empire came, and there were heaps, and there were stacks, and there were you know, these big piles of jewelry and treasure that came from Persia and Majid levy on whatever he calls to rock up in Malik and he says, Do you remember the province and he told you about this? Here you go. These are the promises of the Prophet SAW sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So this is why we don't find the Sahaba ever doubting Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, when they be took place, when her debut took place. On paper, it looks

like that the Muslims suffered a defeat. But when Allah subhanho wa taala, remembering that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam will only do what Allah tells him to do. And when the person is agreeing to all the terms of the Quraysh, the Sahaba are upset the jasola Why are you doing this? But the Prophet SAW Allah Assam knows. And in fact, as soon as he left Makkah, ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala sent down the wire. Hey, in fatahna, like a fat hammer Urbina, you think you I mean, not him the property. So the Sahaba thought that they were defeated. Everyone else thought the police thought that they had the upper hand. But here Allah subhana wa Taala is telling the Prophet No,

everyone can think what they want to think. I will tell you that this was a victory. This was a victory. And this is why no one doubted Rasul allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

In these kinds of matters, another lesson to be learned is this. When these people once again they told Musa you're kidding with us at that tequila Husa but it was indeed bunny saw eel who made a mockery of Musa alayhis salam. Why? Because think about how disrespectful but he is starting to work, you know every time they came to Musa alayhis salam because first of all they came to Musa alayhis salam and the story is long, but Musa is some kept on saying that first of all he says sacrifice account, but they're like what kind of cow is it? What is the color of the cow? What type of cow is it? They made it difficult upon themselves? But here's what's interesting to note their

level of disrespect was is found in the words of the Quran. When they came to Musa the Assam they couldn't have said, Oh Musa, can you ask our Rob Right? Oh Musa, can you ask our Rob that what do we do in this kind of situation? They never asked Musa this way. Every time they came to Musa they said follow the Alana Rob buck. Ask your Lord, ask your Lord ask your Lord, as if they don't have full Iman in Allah subhanho wa Taala as if they doubt Allah subhana wa Tala. I mean think about the wording they could have said once again, can you please come and go and ask, you know, what should Allah want us to do? What does Allah know? What is your robot? What is your job and every single

idea in this passage, it says the same thing follow the robot. And here Musa is telling them that listen, this is not me. Every I also says the Musa will tell them that Allah told them this, yet they always doubted. Musa alayhis salam. And so the lesson that we learn is this, the more we doubt, this is once again Allah telling the Sahaba and in essence telling us, the more we doubt Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the more we disregard the the advices of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam just like when bunny is saying disregarded Musa as orders, Allah may a difficult upon them to find the cow that they needed. Likewise, Allah will make our life difficult if we disregard the

life of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and the perfect example I can give you is no better example than the Battle of heart, the Battle of a heart here the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam gives an order he gives a very simple order to 50 people that take care of this certain area, I want you to do this. And the poverty is some gave them very special instructions, that you do not move from this position till I tell you till I tell you yet to the Sahaba thinking that the battle was over, and Holly been worried at that time not being a Muslim, he saw that there was a passage, there was a passage an opening, and he came in, and the Muslim they suffered a lot of heavy casualties,

many of the Allama they say the fact that the Sahaba they disregarded the instructions of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. This is why there were so many heavy casualties. With the lesson that we take from this is the more we are life is in contradiction to the life of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Allah will create difficulties in our life, and the more we are closer to the Prophet sallallahu sallam, the more our life is like the Prophet SAW Selim, the more there is soon as a my life in my child's life, inshallah Allah will bring the baraka within our life. Now, here, once again,

going through the entire story, they kept on coming to Musashi Assam. And also what's interesting also to note is this. It was not as if Musa will just simply say, okay, you know what if they said, Musa asked her what color is it and he would just sit there as a yellow color Ruby and know Musa lism had to travel. He had to travel, they put Musa through difficulty, once again, ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala is telling these people, you should never put your put your profit through difficulty. Every time Musa alayhis salam, he would have to leave he will go to Mountune where he will speak to Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah will tell them and then again Musa will come and inform them again they will

have a question again he will go back to the to Mountune again he will ask again they will come and so this is why Allah subhanho wa Taala when he saw that it's not the it's not Musa who's at fault here is these people in their arrogance and their hypocrisy. This is why ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala made it difficult for them. Now finally at the end and the end passage or the the end of this passage, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada says, * will not do the Boo hoo baldy. Ha first of all Allah subhanho wa Taala he says, What if I tell Tom Nelson for the Autopia that when there was a person killed in your community, then there were there were blames against each other. Allah says will love and welcome

you join my quantum tech Timon Allah brought light to you. Allah brought to light what you conceal. And then he said

as * will no booty boo be baldy ha. Then Allah subhanho wa Taala said take a portion or take or strike the corpse with a part of the cow mean that sacrifice the cow, take a part of the cow strike it on the dead person and this person would reveal the name of who killed him. This is an Allah subhanaw taala says, because then you can use your love will Mota where you really come at the Aleksandar Quran that Allah restores the dead to life and shows you His signs. What is the point of this is the point of this ayah? Is Allah subhanaw taala is telling us that there are people who denied or they rejected the akhirah? How can Allah resurrect a human being when a human being has

turned into dust? How can Allah revive this human being? Allah subhanho wa Taala is telling us that if I can make a dead person speak, by simply striking him with a piece of a cow, or a body part of a cow, do you really think is difficult for me to resurrect you again, if I can make a dead person talk, I can bring this person back to life and they can talk also and they will be resurrected. So this is not only that, this is this is mentioned right before the idea which is a very beautiful idea that Allah subhanho wa Taala talks about the hearts that there are some hearts that are soft, there are some hearts there are absolutely hard, that no good can penetrate into those into those

hearts. Here Allah subhanho wa Taala he's telling you what he saw in that you think that you will not face Allah and the ACULA all your crimes that you have committed all your violations, and not only that, but you made a covenant, all those promises you broke, you are going to face it Allah subhanho wa Taala if I can make a dead person speak, I will bring you most certainly in front of me on the day of judgment and you will have to you will have to give an account of everything that you have done. So this is this is the end of the the passage of Surah Al Baqarah. Or the end of this, this conversation as I said earlier, this was a conversation pretty much between bunnies saw eel and

Musa and Allah subhanho wa Taala so they came to Musa Musa went to Allah or Musa went to, he asked Allah, Allah told Musa Allah and then Musa told these people, and then they would again ask the question again Musa would ask Allah and so this back and forth that took place over and over again. This is why I included today in this series of conversations. Some people have counted, they have you know, suggested that this is a conversation. Some people said that this was not truly a conversation. And but nonetheless, there's lessons to be learned from this. I ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to give us Iman, in the words of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, we ask Allah subhana

wa Taala that for the reason that he the reason that he showed us and he told us all these stories, so that we don't ever follow the footsteps of Bani Israel. We ask Allah subhana wa to never or to not let us ever footstep, our follow the footsteps of those people who earn his anger and who and earn his wrath, but rather give us the ability to follow the path and do what the people of the past did, that they brought the the pleasure of Allah subhanho wa Taala upon them. I mean, nobody. I mean, does that Kamala Hey subharmonic Aloha HomeHub Yes, yes, sir.

incidents happening before the incident.

And then he came down and dishonor the worshipping or the incident where

the slavery occurred?

That's a really good question. In my own personal opinion, based on what I've studied, there is no chronological order that is mentioned, based on my understanding this incident happened first, the slaughter of the cow, the slaughter of the cow first, because what we do learn is that the more Musa is I'm talking about Allah subhanho wa taala, the more they kept on doubting Musa and this is why they went to Musala exam and they said, you know, we're not going to believe in you until we see Allah subhanho wa taala. So in my Oh Allah, Allah, I can go back and it's a really good question. I can look into this. But based on my understanding what I have so far what I've read, and what I've

understood, this incident took place in that incident took place much later. Yeah, exactly.

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